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Meg Munn
Labour MP for Sheffield, Heeley
- Entered Parliament on 7 June 2001 — General election
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- Register of Members’ Interests
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Voting record (from PublicWhip)
How Meg Munn voted on key issues since 2001:
- Voted strongly against increasing the rate of VAT. votes
- Voted very strongly for equal gay rights. votes
- Voted a mixture of for and against laws to stop climate change. votes
- Voted moderately for replacing Trident. votes
- Voted strongly for a smoking ban. votes
- Voted strongly for more EU integration. votes
- Voted for removing hereditary peers from the House of Lords. votes
- Voted very strongly for a wholly elected House of Lords. votes
- Voted moderately for university tuition fees. votes
- Voted against raising England’s undergraduate tuition fee cap to £9,000 per year. votes
- Voted very strongly for introducing ID cards. votes
- Voted a mixture of for and against a more proportional system for electing MPs. votes
- Voted moderately against greater autonomy for schools. votes
- Voted moderately for the hunting ban. votes
- Voted very strongly for introducing foundation hospitals. votes
- Voted moderately for automatic enrolment in occupational pensions. votes
- Voted a mixture of for and against encouraging occupational pensions. votes
- Voted very strongly for a stricter asylum system. votes
- Voted very strongly for allowing ministers to intervene in inquests. votes
- Voted very strongly for Labour's anti-terrorism laws. votes
- Voted very strongly for the Iraq war. votes
- Voted strongly against an investigation into the Iraq war. votes
- Voted strongly against a transparent Parliament. votes
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- Hardly ever rebels against their party in this parliament.
Topics of interest
Asks most questions about
- Departments: Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, Education, Transport, Health, Energy and Climate Change
- Subjects (based on headings added by Hansard): Iran: Baha'i Faith, UK Resource Centre for Science Engineering and Technology, Lorries: Sleep Apnoea, Driving: Eyesight, Arts Council
(based on written questions asked by Meg Munn and answered by departments)
Public Bill Committees (sittings attended)
- Estates of Deceased Persons (Forfeiture Rule and Law Of Succession) Bill Committee (1 out of 1)
- Education Bill Committee (20 out of 22)
- Co-operative and Community Benefit Societies and Credit Unions Bill Committee (1 out of 1)
- Welfare Reform Bill Committee (9 out of 9)
- Co-operative and Community Benefit Societies and Credit Unions Bill Committee (1 out of 1)
- Work and Families Bill Committee (2 out of 3)
- Equality Bill Committee (8 out of 8)
- Domestic Violence, Crime and Victims Bill Committee (8 out of 10)
- Children Bill Committee (7 out of 8)
- Community Care (Delayed Discharges etc.) Bill Committee (2 out of 3)
- Co-operatives and CommunityBenefit Societies Bill Committee (1 out of 1)
- Finance Bill Committee (11 out of 16)
- Adoption and Children Bill Committee (18 out of 23)
- Employee Share Schemes Bill Committee (1 out of 1)
- Electoral Fraud (Northern Ireland) Committee (4 out of 4)
- Police Reform Bill Committee (9 out of 12)
Most recent appearances
- Oral Answers to Questions — Justice: Foreign Affairs and International Development (15 May 2012)
“I want to contribute on a number of issues, starting with international development. I support the aid target of 0.7% of GNI. It is a useful target. As others have said, it has been in place for many years, and it can help to identify an amount over time and enable us to compare what different countries are achieving. It is a real credit to the campaigners outside Parliament who pushed for...”
- Oral Answers to Questions — Justice: Foreign Affairs and International Development (15 May 2012)
“I entirely agree with my hon. Friend. That is why it is so important that we learn from successes such as Ghana, the first sub-Saharan African country to achieve the millennium development goal of halving hunger, and Malawi, which, through a subsidy programme for seed and fertiliser, has moved within two years from a food deficit to a food surplus. I do not think that the target needs to be...”
- Oral Answers to Questions — Justice: Foreign Affairs and International Development (15 May 2012)
“Is not the hon. Gentleman illustrating the fact that there is quite a narrow focus on international issues? As my hon. Friend the Member for Edinburgh North and Leith (Mark Lazarowicz) said, there is no overriding theme running through the Foreign Office. Surely our diplomatic efforts should be about more than just trade. Did not the Government come unstuck in that way before, when the Prime...”
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Numerology
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- Has spoken in 34 debates in the last year — average amongst MPs.
- Has received answers to 57 written questions in the last year — above average amongst MPs.
- Replied within 2 or 3 weeks to a high number of messages sent via WriteToThem.com during 2008, according to constituents.
- Has voted in 72.08% of votes in this Parliament with this affiliation — average amongst MPs. (From Public Whip)
- People have made 15 annotations on this MP’s speeches — above average amongst MPs.
- This MP's speeches, in Hansard, are readable by an average 17–18 year old, going by the Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level score.
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- Has used three-word alliterative phrases (e.g. "she sells seashells") 346 times in debates — above average amongst MPs. (Why is this here?)
Register of Members’ Interests
Register last updated: 30 Apr 2012. More about the Register
View the history of this MP's entries in the Register
Expenses
Figures in brackets are ranks.Data from parliament.uk (source). Read 2004/05 – 2008/09 and 1st quarter 2009/10 receipts.
| Type | 2008/09 (ranking out of 647) | 2007/08 (ranking out of 645) | 2006/07 (ranking out of 645) | 2005/06 | 2004/05 (ranking out of 659) | 2003/04 (ranking out of 658) | 2002/03 (ranking out of 657) | 2001/02 (ranking out of 657) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Staying away from main home | £22,650 (161st) | £23,083 (joint 1st with 142 others) | £22,110 (joint 1st with 183 others) | £21,509 | £20,902 (joint 1st with 187 others) | £20,321 (joint 184th with 2 others) | £19,722 (joint 1st with 230 others) | £18,009 (joint 2nd with 55 others) |
| London costs | £0 | £0 | £0 | £0 | £0 | £0 | £0 | £0 |
| Office running costs | £14,861 (433rd) | £14,631 (470th) | £19,878 (377th) | £18,578 | £16,253 (437th) | £17,651 (493rd) | £18,188 (joint 281st with 1 other) | £18,167 (joint 230th with 1 other) |
| Staffing costs | £80,933 (561st) | £81,047 (516th) | £83,544 (353rd) | £72,094 | £69,449 (398th) | £67,850 (333rd) | £65,596 (joint 179th with 51 others) | £41,906 (472nd) |
| Communications Allowance | £4,211 (496th) | £6,311 (401st) | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| Members' Travel | £7,050 (331st)1 | £8,685 (267th)2 | £9,883 (222nd)3 | £8,201 | £12,301 (260th) | £12,818 (218th) | £12,073 (244th) | £6,849 (373rd) |
| Members' Staff Travel | £548 (143rd) | £494 (joint 211th with 1 other) | £1,034 (joint 120th with 1 other) | £1,850 | £2,591 (34th) | £1,222 (127th) | £1,712 (71st) | £667 (201st) |
| Members' Spouse Travel | £1,078 (110th) | £2,052 (60th) | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| Members' Family Travel | £0 | £0 | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| Centrally Purchased Stationery | £6,995 (joint 14th with 2 others) | £1,308 (128th) | £3,326 (41st) | £1,985 | £2,022 (105th) | £1,921 (78th) | £512 (563rd) | £4,655 (3rd) |
| Stationery: Associated Postage Costs | £5,565 (15th) | £14,882 (14th) | £12,825 | £11,598 (31st) | £10,822 (19th) | N/A | N/A | |
| Centrally Provided Computer Equipment | £1,180 (joint 358th with 4 others) | £973 (joint 454th with 10 others) | £973 | £1,968 (joint 134th with 11 others) | £1,968 (joint 127th with 11 others) | £1,968 (joint 126th with 11 others) | £1,968 (joint 121st with 10 others) | |
| Other Costs | £0 | £0 | £832 (joint 64th with 2 others) | £158 | £0 | £0 | £0 | £0 |
| Total | £138,327 (475th) | £144,356 (361st) | £156,462 (42nd) | £138,173 | £137,084 (88th) | £134,573 (70th) | £119,771 (176th) | £92,221 (229th) |
1 Regular journeys between home/constituency/Westminster: Mileage £1,738 (399th). Rail £5,312 (170th).
2 Regular journeys between home/constituency/Westminster: Mileage £2,309 (364th). Rail £6,285 (143rd). Misc £91 (169th).
3 Car £2,580 (356th). Rail £6,462 (115th). European £841 (51st).